Remarks On Foreign Soldiers From A Superpower / A Foreign Secret Service Poem by Gert Strydom

It’s strange that some foreign soldiers
seems too illiterate
uncommon with signs,
even with the alphabet
in places which they occupy and conquer
to comprehend
the universal phallic finger that is raised

and think that candy bars
and money will buy goodwill

and still the foreign secret service meddles
into the affairs of other countries
and one message is not understood:

to return to the motherland,

whose enemies
are treated without dignity,
whose enemies are abducted
from foreign countries,
(where the citizens of that countries
who want to interfere
with these criminal acts
are threatened by their very lives
with machineguns being pointed at them) ,

where those abducted
are thrown without trial or any avail
into huge secret jails
and the star speckled banner flaps
while the lamb roars
and belches fire like the dragon
that she in reality is.